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TOKYO: Belgium won their first Olympic men’s hockey title, beating Australia 3-2 in a penalty shootout after the final finished in a 1-1 draw on Thursday. The sides were locked in a close fight through much of the match, with Belgium forward Florent van Aubel giving the Red Lions the lead two minutes into the second half. Australia equalised thanks …

NOTTINGHAM: India captain Virat Kohli was out for a golden duck in the first Test amid a collapse that saw England great James Anderson take two wickets with successive deliveries on Thursday’s second day at Trent Bridge. Kohli was caught behind off Anderson by wicket-keeper Jos Buttler one ball after Cheteshwar Pujara fell to the same combination for four. India …

TOKYO: Argentina’s players hugged each other and cried after reaching the women’s hockey final at the Tokyo Olympics with a 2-1 win over India on Wednesday. Argentina will face the Netherlands in Friday’s final, while India will battle Britain for bronze. Argentina suffered an early setback, conceding a second-minute goal when India’s Gurjit Kaur flicked the ball into the goal …

TOKYO: Lasha Talak­hadze pumped everyone up with three world records on the final day of Olympic competition in weightlifting. The defending champion from Georgia lifted 223kg in the snatch and 265kg in the clean and jerk for a total 488kg on Wednesday. All three figures broke his own world records in the over-109kg men’s superheavyweight category. Ali Davoudi of Iran …

CHIBA: Ukraine’s Zhan Beleniuk went one step further than his silver medal in 2016 by winning the Greco-Roman middleweight gold at the Tokyo Olympics by beating Hungary’s Viktor Lorincz in the final on Wednesday. Beleniuk, a twice world champion and Ukraine’s first Black member of parliament elected in 2019, was in control throughout. At 1-1 in the second period, he …

TOKYO: The Tokyo Games keep producing some of the fastest moments the world has ever seen on the track. A day after the men’s 400m hurdles staged possibly one of the greatest races ever run, the women put on their own show as one of the Games’ most anticipated rivalries lived up to the hype. The United States’ Sydney McLaughlin …

The New Zealand cricket team will play three ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Super League ODIs and five T20Is on their first tour of Pakistan in 18 years, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said on Thursday while announcing the schedule of the upcoming tour. According to a handout released by the cricket board, the ODIs will be played at the …

The entire nation is praising Arshad Nadeem after his tremendous achievement of making it through to the final of the men’s javelin toss at the Tokyo Olympics. The athlete is that much closer to winning a medal for Pakistan and our celebrities are taking to social media to cheer Nadeem on. The 24-year-old thrower from Mian Channu, Khanewal made it to the …

The celebrations started simultaneously in Tokyo and across India for a bronze medal that’s taken 41 years to forge. For the most successful nation in Olympic field hockey competition, India’s 5-4 victory over Germany in the bronze-medal match at the Tokyo Games was celebrated like a gold. It was India’s 12th Olympic medal in the sport, but its first since …

LAHORE: Dr Najeebullah Soomro has been appointed as chief medical officer of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) in place of Dr Sohail Saleem who resigned in the backdrop of some Covid-19 cases that emerged during the Karachi leg of the Pakistan Super League-6 earlier this year. Dr Sohail quit the post much before the report of the inquiry committee appointed …